. . . that the “level and hatred and bitterness” borne of this election had made him a believer that whites were going to hell.

Lowery said, according to the Monroe County Reporter, it was the same belief he held at the height of the civil rights movement. Eventually he mellowed, believing that not all whites, rather only “most,” would get their brimstone comeuppance.

“Now,” the local newsweekly reported, “he is back to where he was.”

President Obama awarded Lowery the Medal of Freedom in 2009. He “was elected earlier this year to lead the state’s delegation to the Democratic national convention.”

Wonder if Barney Frank is doing to call on the president to “differentiate” himself from Lowery’s remarks.

Rev. Joseph Lowery, the civil rights icon who co-founded the Southern Christian Leadership Conference with Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., said during a rally at St. James Baptist Church in Forsyth, Ga. that he’s arrived back at the same view he held as a “young militant,” according to the Monroe County Reporter:

Lowery said that when he was a young militant, he used to say all white folks were going to hell. Then he mellowed and just said most of them were. Now, he said, he is back to where he was.
The Reporter paraphrased Lowery’s comments and did not provide a direct quote relating to those remarks. It should be noted that the reverend appeared to be using hyperbole to drive a point home, not stating a factual theological conclusion. That being said, the statement is still extremely controversial and divisive

Could you imagine the furor if a prominent Romney supporter claimed that all blacks were going to Hell? That insulted in racist terms any white person not voting for Romney? The media would be all over such comments, and the resulting backlash would cost Romney the election and the GOP both houses of Congress and a number of governorships.

So why isn’t the press reporting this story prominently?

Because if they did, there would be a national furor. The backlash would be sufficient to bury Obama on election day. It will likely tip House and Senate seats to the GOP. Republicans would elect several governors where they had previously been deemed not to have a chance.

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It should be noted that the reverend appeared to be using hyperbole to drive a point home, not stating a factual theological conclusion. That being said, the statement is still extremely controversial and divisive

Back around 1991, I was at a conference in Atlanta about churches dealing with AIDS in the black community, sponsored by Mrs. Lowery (a far more pleasant person). Rev. Lowery was the main draw, and from what I learned about this type of activity as time went on, I’m sure he was paid a great deal of federal money to show up.

He made a few incontinent remarks about how black churches would have to address AIDS because if they didn’t, they’d lose all their choir directors to the disease. He apparently though this was pretty funny. The rest of his speech was the usual blaming of whites and Republicans for the existence of the disease, and all other ills.

The best way to shut up people like this is to stop giving them federal grants — or DNC leadership dollars — to spew their ugly nonsense.

Rev. Lowery has been cashing in on the civil rights movement for almost 50 years, at least half of that time doing a great deal of harm to his own community while pocketing the cash.

AIDs was another money-maker for people like Lowery. It was the biggest payday for the black political elite since Wayne Williams.